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‘Spiral Jetty’ Is Named an Official State Work of Art by Utah

March 14, 2017

The New York Times | Randy Kennedy:

The great American sculptor Robert Smithson, who died in a plane crash in 1973 at the age of 35, was as interested in the history of the Earth as he was in the history of art. He once considered becoming a geologist and said that as a reader, “the entire history of the West was swallowed up” for him “in a preoccupation with notions of prehistory and the great prehistoric epics starting with the age of rocks.”… Read more

Image: “Spiral Jetty” as seen in 2008.Credit: Tom Smart for The New York Times